Following intelligence reports of planned smuggling of phones into Uganda from one of the porus routes in Rwanda, the URA team deployed at the different suspected points.
The operation did not yield results on the first day, however the team did not give up until the smugglers where netted in truck number UAV122C.
“We tracked the saboteurs in the hilly roads where the terrain was treacherous, with a dense mist. We pressed on, knowing that the payoff,” Desmond Lumago, a customs officer in Katuna explained.
The truck was later towed to the URA station in Katuna and here 3060 pieces of ITEL phones where discovered, concealed in boxes.
